[kwlug-disc] PinePhone woes

[R. Brent Clements]

To be fair, I ordered a new cheap Android phone around the same time
because I also did not expect the Pinephone to be up to par.  Once code
that runs all the devices and the hardware acceleration of the video
hardware is complete it probably would be functional, and Pine64 was very
clear that they only intended to make it available for purchase so the
community could make that happen.  I don't regret the purchase, and I am
curious to see the keyboard attachment they have planned, because I miss my
old Blackberry SOOOOOOO MUCH!

Brent

On Wed, 3 Nov 2021 at 15:00, Gordon Dey <gordon.dey at happydeys.ca> wrote:

> On 2021-11-03 12:08 p.m., Mark Steffen wrote[edited]:
>
> >> That has been a common trend in all the China/Taiwan/Korea based
> >> boards in the past decade or so. They release an almost working distro,
> >> and it never gets updated.
>
> I think the reason why is that vendors see shifting boxes as profit,
> whereas development and maintenance as a cost. Therefore, they would
> rather abandon perfectly capable hardware over trying to evolve it to
> maximize profit.
>
> Case in point: the electronics in my car, like the map, won't update
> over=the-air, and reputedly can't be updated via SD card. Just like my
> tablet and phone, I am expected to buy new one annually.
>
> I wish that they'd open source the code so we could update it, rather
> than discard it.
>
> Gord.
>
>
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